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  • 2012
  • R
  • Virgil Films & Entertainment
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2012
  • R
  • Virgil Films & Entertainment
  • 1 h 25 m

Summary Not a documentary, not a Monty Python film, A Liar's Autobiography is Graham Chapman's own take on his bizarre life and his search for self-knowledge. Incredible, yes. Surreal, certainly. True? Who knows? At his memorial service, John Cleese called Chapman “a freeloading bastard”. Now, as the film re-unites Chapman with Cleese, Jones, Pa...

Directed By: Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson, Ben Timlett

Written By: Graham Chapman, David Sherlock

  • 2012
  • R
  • Virgil Films & Entertainment
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2012
  • R
  • Virgil Films & Entertainment
  • 1 h 25 m

A Liar's Autobiography - The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
45
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 12 User Ratings
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Summary Not a documentary, not a Monty Python film, A Liar's Autobiography is Graham Chapman's own take on his bizarre life and his search for self-knowledge. Incredible, yes. Surreal, certainly. True? Who knows? At his memorial service, John Cleese called Chapman “a freeloading bastard”. Now, as the film re-unites Chapman with Cleese, Jones, Pa...

Directed By: Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson, Ben Timlett

Written By: Graham Chapman, David Sherlock

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
45
13% Positive
2 Reviews
67% Mixed
10 Reviews
20% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
45
13% Positive
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67% Mixed
10 Reviews
20% Negative
3 Reviews

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75
Nov 8, 2012
Like a lesser Python entry ("The Meaning of Life"?), it's alternately brilliant and frustrating.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
60
Feb 9, 2013
The film's depiction of the ugliness and strangeness of his self-hating LA celeb lifestyle is disturbing. Not just for Python fans.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
60
Nov 1, 2012
The movie has enough weird-wild-ride brio to convince you that Chapman was indeed quite a character.
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50
Nov 16, 2012
The film only really has a pulse when it switches to live action in a few brief archival snippets, most memorably in John Cleese's appropriately outrageous eulogy for his late friend, an offering in the name of "anything for him, but mindless good taste."
By Liam Lacey FULL REVIEW
42
Oct 31, 2012
What's missing from this movie is any of that sense of what made Chapman so important, or why he was so often at the center of Monty Python's best skits and movies, up until his death from cancer at 48.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
30
Nov 2, 2012
Feels like a failure on all fronts - unpleasant to look at, needlessly in 3D, drearily unfunny and worst of all an incomplete portrait of the person to whom it is ostensibly paying tribute.
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Oct 29, 2012
Graham Chapman's story, frankly, is better served by his Wikipedia page.
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Production Company Brainstorm Media, Epix (I), Trinity Film Production, Bill and Ben Productions
Release Date Nov 2, 2012
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating R
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Tagline Still Dead, And Now in 3D
Website http://www.liarsautobiography.com/
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